ENL5F-07
Finished ENL5F-07. I really wasn't very inspired by this one.. just wanted to get it done. The story of course can be found here.
The prompt was: "Write the monologue of a liar. (1-2 typed pages.)" that is all.
My first thought regarding the assignment was to our beloved Iraqi comrade, Al-Sahaf, and his shameless claims of complete dominion over US forces up until the point he disappeared. But there was no point really in making a parody of that, because his own lies were already so apparent, outragious and hyperbolic that there was no way I could beat him. So instead my International Relations tendencies led me in the direction of Milosevic. But I've already got a Soviet story so that whole slavic area has already kinda been done by me; and memories resurfaced of testifying in the International Court of Justice at the MVHS Model UN conference 2002 as a villager in a Congolese village destroyed by Ugandan troops. "Would you say they [there follows a long list of human rights abuses]?" "yes, and the killing of goats!" says I in broken English. Coincidentally that same day I also testified as Radovan Karidvic, a Bosnian war-criminal accused of similar atrocities. So in a way, I have been in the place of both those characters in the story. How many of YOU have been on trial for war crimes before??
Entirely coincidentally, I did a search on google to find a nice Ugandan name (as you can see in the story, I ended up using none), I came across this article, which basically addresses the exact situation my story regards, and sets it in a perfect context.
As I mentioned I was not very into this story, and hence there are several severe inconsistancies that I would otherwise try to eliminate. Let me set forth that I am aware of them. (A)The witnesses are present for one another's testimoney, that is totally wack; (B)I have no idea WHERE this takes place, surely neither Uganda nor Congo, but it doesn't seem to me like ICJ headquarters in The Hague now either... eh, mainly just that witness thing bugs me. Oh well, odds of the teacher noticing that= 63:1
And now.. hmm.. now sleeping prolly isn't even a very good idea but oh well.
The prompt was: "Write the monologue of a liar. (1-2 typed pages.)" that is all.
My first thought regarding the assignment was to our beloved Iraqi comrade, Al-Sahaf, and his shameless claims of complete dominion over US forces up until the point he disappeared. But there was no point really in making a parody of that, because his own lies were already so apparent, outragious and hyperbolic that there was no way I could beat him. So instead my International Relations tendencies led me in the direction of Milosevic. But I've already got a Soviet story so that whole slavic area has already kinda been done by me; and memories resurfaced of testifying in the International Court of Justice at the MVHS Model UN conference 2002 as a villager in a Congolese village destroyed by Ugandan troops. "Would you say they [there follows a long list of human rights abuses]?" "yes, and the killing of goats!" says I in broken English. Coincidentally that same day I also testified as Radovan Karidvic, a Bosnian war-criminal accused of similar atrocities. So in a way, I have been in the place of both those characters in the story. How many of YOU have been on trial for war crimes before??
Entirely coincidentally, I did a search on google to find a nice Ugandan name (as you can see in the story, I ended up using none), I came across this article, which basically addresses the exact situation my story regards, and sets it in a perfect context.
As I mentioned I was not very into this story, and hence there are several severe inconsistancies that I would otherwise try to eliminate. Let me set forth that I am aware of them. (A)The witnesses are present for one another's testimoney, that is totally wack; (B)I have no idea WHERE this takes place, surely neither Uganda nor Congo, but it doesn't seem to me like ICJ headquarters in The Hague now either... eh, mainly just that witness thing bugs me. Oh well, odds of the teacher noticing that= 63:1
And now.. hmm.. now sleeping prolly isn't even a very good idea but oh well.